女子買不起房 花一百萬買船裝成水上豪宅

An advertising executive who struggled to get on the property ladder is now living in her dream home after building a houseboat.

一位爲擁有屬於自己的房產而苦苦掙扎的廣告經理建造了一艘船屋，如今她住上了自己夢寐以求的“房子”。

Karen Boswell, 35, designed the ￡182,000, 21 meters long vessel, called Maybe Tomorrow, which took four months to create from scratch.

歷時4個月，35歲的凱倫·博斯韋爾設計並裝修了一艘名爲“也許明天”的船，該船價值18.2萬英鎊、長約21米。

Boswell said despite earning a six figure salary in her job, she couldn't afford her own home even though she saved for years for a deposit.

博斯韋爾稱，儘管她能通過工作賺到6位數的薪水，也存了好幾年錢，但卻仍買不起屬於自己的房子。

Her friend then gave her the idea of living in a houseboat, and she realized she could create her very own home for a fraction of the budget.

後來朋友爲她出了一個住在船屋上的主意，於是她意識到只需買房預算的一小部分，就可以建造自己的家了。

The boat, which includes a king sized bed, a bathroom with a double shower, concrete kitchen counter-tops and full height ceilings, is moored in a private marina in the Grand Union Canal, in north west London.

這艘船內有一張特大號的牀，一間帶雙淋浴設備的衛生間，水泥廚房檯面和挑高的天花板。目前船被停在倫敦西北部大運河上的一個私人碼頭。

She pays 8,000 pounds a year to keep it docked in the marina, and her outgoings, including electricity and a three-yearly treatment of the hull, work out at about 3,000 pounds a year.

她每年需給碼頭支付8000英鎊作爲停泊費，除此之外，包括電費、每三年一次的船體檢查的支出，每年花費約3000英鎊。

And because she has designed the boat with such a high spec, it is already worth 30,000 pounds more than she paid for her.

由於博斯韋爾設計瞭如此高規格的船，其價格已比博斯韋爾當初買時高出3萬英鎊。